If you think your diet and daily meals are growing duller, it’s time to search for new dishes. Here are the best ways to discover new kinds of recipes.
Sometimes it's hard to get excited about cooking, especially when your favorite recipes risk turning into culinary cliches. But there are plenty of fun methods for finding new tantalizing breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and desserts that don’t require a lot of research. Here are the best ways to discover new kinds of recipes when you’ve run out of ideas.
Take an Online Class
Learning from an expert or old pro is always the best way to discover new recipes and old favorites while honing your cooking skills. But few people have the time for travel and attendance of an in-person class. Virtual cooking classes are a great substitute for live learning, and you get the same great instruction you’d expect from a face-to-face experience.
Spin the Wheel and Make a Meal
If you have a wealth of ingredients but don’t know how to use them, visit a recipe-suggesting website or app, sometimes called a “dinner spinner.” When you input the ingredients you have on hand and click the search button, you’ll be immediately introduced to hundreds of potential new meals. Whether you want to taste something new, use ingredients before they go bad, or simply enjoy a game of food roulette, you’re sure to discover some new recipe that never crossed your mind, or plate, before!
Food Sharing Sites
No doubt, one of the best ways to discover new kinds of recipes is the one that brought you here: search engines. It can be overwhelming, however, to peruse massive recipe databases. Consider getting more personal with social media devoted to sharing recipes. Naturally, there are plenty of Facebook, Twitter, and other big social media sites that have recipe-specific groups and feeds, but look for apps like Hoorray and Cucumbertown where you can create a profile and meet other foodies.
Look for the Books
It’s easy enough to go to the library or shop online for an official cookbook filled with innovative ideas in cookery, but if you want to really mix it up, look for locally published works filled with recipes by real people. Self-published and small-press cookbooks are available through churches, schools, social organizations, vacation spots, local bookstores, flea markets, and many other places. Get great food and dishes at the local level and straight from the folks who know best about good cooking and delicious meals: everyday people!
